A Search and Rescue for two overdue snow-machiners from Noorvik ended sadly on Friday, the trooper dispatch reported. At 12:07 pm on Friday, Alaska State Troopers were notified by the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and Rescue Coordinator, Lena Ferguson, that two men, identified as 34-year-old Richard Patterson and 44-year-old Fred Melton were overdue from a […]
Troopers in Northwest Alaska are reminding travelers to make sure that they travel with an adequate supply of fuel following a successful search and rescue operation that ended on the Kobuk River on early Wednesday morning. It was at 10:35 pm on Tuesday that the Alaska State Troopers an the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and […]
A Noorvik man is in jail following an altercation in that community on Tuesday, the trooper dispatch reports. After Kotzebue-based troopers received a call from the community of Noorvik of a disturbance in the community, troopers traveled to Noorvik to investigate. When they arrived in Noorvik, they contacted 32-year-old Carl Smith, who was the subject […]
During the early morning hours of Monday, the Village Public Safety Officer in Noorvik was alerted to a burglary in progress at the Noorvik Post Office. The VPSO responded to the scene at the post office at 7 am on June 29th to see a 17-year-old juvenile standing in the bushes near the post office. […]